Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Thanks for the reply... I'm very excited about this new program you 
guys are working on.  What language are you programming it in?  I 
have a bit of VB experience if that is any help and I would 
definately be willing thrash it around a bit as a beta... especially 
considering there is nothing "real" important on my unit yet and I'm 
also about to trash this whole system and reinstall.

Let me know if you need someone on a win2000 box with a DTXpressIII 
to test this out for you,
Gilligan

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "custom_elect" <custom_elect@y...> 
wrote:
> Hi Gilligan
> I'm in the same boat with my DTX-II (Thanks for your previous 
> response by the way). - As I'm not a drummer, I need to save and 
> reload my carefully recorded user patterns reliably.
> We are writing a full backup/restore utility for the DTX which is 
> almost complete (the restore timing needs adjusting at the moment, 
> then it needs a good thrashing before release), as soon as its 
done, 
> I will send you a link to download it. - Probably in a couple of 
days.
> 
> For now - it might help you to know that in the past we've played 
> with the DTXchange utility, and managed to backup/restore drumkits 
> sucessfully. Weve also managed to backup (but not restore) the user 
> song data with it. The author (Greg) was great, and very helpfully, 
> sent me the source for reference in writing our new utility. - 
> DTXchange is great at what it was meant to do, but it wasnt 
designed 
> to backup/restore of all the data types as its structured for one 
Sys-
> ex data drumkit at a time. From memory, you basically run it up, do 
> the "Midi-Setup", "Receive", then tell the DTXpress to dump the 
kit, 
> then "Save". It creates a PC file with the Sys-Ex event data in 
it. - 
> Restoring is basically the reverse, i.e. "Load", "Send". - I 
imagine 
> the file format used is personal to the DTXchange program and not 
> interchangable with other.
> 
> I guess if you save the user kit and any user songs data you want 
to 
> keep using this, it will then be safe to do the Factory reset.
> 
> Good Luck
> Roger
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Richard" 
<kevin_richard@b...> 
> wrote:
> > Ok... I have tried to read through the archives but man I'm way 
too 
> > tired... I just got my Dtxpress III (YAY!) and I want to dump 
> what's 
> > in it and retore the defaults (A. I want to check out the 
previous 
> > owners sounds. B. I want to make sure I can do this when I want 
to 
> > back up my sounds)
> > 
> > Did anything ever come out of that offline editor program?
> > 
> > I've done a dump in dumpster but dtxchang locks up when trying to 
> > load it... and dtxchange doesn't seem to recieve any data when 
> > waiting for the bulk dump... unless I'm just stupid and don't 
know 
> > how to use it.
> > 
> > and freeloader crashes right after the dump is finished :(
> > 
> > What should I be doing to get this backup properly?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Gilligan